<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bill,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Have you tried the old bogus-mx record
trick?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That is, alter the MX records for the
mail server handling inbound mail such that the first few MX entries (with
the lower, but getting higher, record numbers) are bogus (point to nothing)
and the valid MX entry isn't till later in the list and has the highest
record number. In the good-ol-days spambots wouldn't go past the
first (or first few) MX entries if they were invalid, where legitimate
mail servers would. Even these days, bots will only go so far because
they don't want to waste time doing too many attempts as they work their
way through a target's list of MX entries trying to find one that works.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Anyway, just another idea to consider.
But I do think your in the region of rapidly diminishing returns.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BenR<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Kenneth,<br>
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Thanks, we've already been working with spamassassin. Other departments
<br>
have what should be the exact same configuration and complain when 9 <br>
spam a weekend get through. When we have less then 9 in a night,
we're <br>
happy. Spam filtering is over 90% effective, but with our spam level
<br>
that's just not sufficient. Our best guess as to the root problem
is <br>
the server can not handle the load. Obviously fixing the root problem
<br>
(in-effective spam filtering) would be ideal, and its something we are
<br>
VERY actively working on. In the mean time my boss has charged me with
<br>
adding back the delete button, thus my question.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Bill<br>
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Kenneth Marshall wrote:<br>
> Bill,<br>
><br>
> We found that putting RT behind DSPAM or another Baysian based filter<br>
> was the best solution for us. The support staff monitor the quarantine<br>
> and train the misses. It is accurate enough that only a very few ever<br>
> make it to the RT system.<br>
><br>
> Ken<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:16:28PM -0400, William (Bill) Triest wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> Basically a lot of spam gets through our spam filtering and ends
up in <br>
>> rt. We hacked an older version of rt to have a delete button
to the <br>
>> right of the take button under RT at a glance so we could easily
delete <br>
>> spam. I've been trying to find "the right way"
to do add it back to our <br>
>> current version (3.6.3).<br>
>><br>
>> If you go to Customize "N" newest unowned tickets, you
can add new <br>
>> Columns. For the link option you have Display or Take. I
think I just <br>
>> need to add a delete option, and then add a Column (similar to
the <br>
>> loc(Take) that's currently in there). Is this correct? If
so, for the <br>
>> life of me I can't find what I need to edit it, and would appreciate
<br>
>> some one pointing me in the right direction.<br>
>><br>
>> --Bill Triest<br>
>> Systems Specialist<br>
>> Department of Chemistry<br>
>> The Ohio State University<br>
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